Armbian build framework

I created a new image for my Odroid C2 with the most current version of Armbian 5.26. Configuration was pretty much standard, except BOOTSIZE=0 and ROOTFS_TYPE=ext4. The image works fine, if dumped to a sdcard. When dumping it to an emmc card, the system boots up, but 'find / > /dev/null' leads to a filesystem error: [ 52.799920] EXT4-fs error (device mmcblk0p1): htree_dirblock_to_tree:913: inode #41001: block 12032: comm find: bad entry in directory: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0(0), inode=8213, rec_len=4097, name_len=0 [ 52.812862] EXT4-fs (mmcblk0p1): Remounting filesystem read-only Behavior is deterministic - I tried with two different boards and two diff…

This might be close to be off-topic, but I think this is the closest forum for this thread. Since I read that Igor asked if we know any build-farm services (clouds like Amazon's EC3 or the like), I've been thinking about private build farms. I imagine that Igor does not have a large build farm (perhaps some boards are contributing with distcc). Thomas, what is your setup for building Armbian ? (I imagine that you may have a stronger setup). Other developers, please chip in too. What's been in my mind for a while, is to make a low-cost farm, which would perform well and make things easier and quicker for the Armbian team. There…

A thought occurred to me while watching my machine sync a bunch of repos while running the Armbian build script, and I couldn't help wondering: Could we put the board support patches into their own repo separate from the build scripts themselves? More specifically: board support for "Boards of Interest" to the Armbian maintainers would be in whatever "official" repos we dedicate, I recommend separating per board family or SoC board support for CSC goes into, predictably, a CSC repo board support for EOL boards can be spun off into their own repo TV boxes go into a TV box repo Advantages: Supporting every pet …

I am currently learning on the H5 on a OrangePiPC2. I would like to be able to add debug messages to arm-trusted-firmware (bl31) and u-boot code, then re-build them and update my SD card. I did successfully build an image, but having spent some time going through the build scripts and the documentation, and performed a number of recursive grep commands looking where bl31.bin was being referenced from, I have not been able to answer the following questions yet: 1) where is located the script code responsible for packaging bl31.bin and u-boot into an image acceptable by the H5 boot ROM ? 2) where is located the script code responsible for writin…

I am building my own armbian image using the armbian build environment. A substantial part of the image creation time is occupied by over-and-over recompiling the kernel. Sure, it does go faster the 2nd time, but it still takes a lot of time. The goal for me is not to make a custom kernel. I am totally happy with the kernel. The goal for me is to modify the rest of the image. They installed software, config, etc. Is there a way to reuse an existing kernel for this, instead of rebuilding a new one each time? Cheers, Dolf.

I'm on Windows 10 using WSL2 (Ubuntu 20.04) to build (running with sudo). I installed gpg & generated a public key (I chose DSA+RSA, 3072 Length, Never Expire), but get errors with verification: Probably not a supported build environment but I figured I'd see if there was a simple fix rather than spinning up another VM... Came back here because I randomly looked and saw that UDOO was no longer obsolete (THANKS!) CPU configuration: 392000 - 996000 with interactive Displaying message: Preparing host info Displaying message: Build host OS release focal info Displaying message: Syncing clock host info Displaying message: Checking for external GCC compile…

I have several applications running on different boards. After reading documents/forum posts and checking the code here and there, I came to the following setup and I'll be very pleased if someone confirms it. Application A1, A2,..An Board B1, B2,...Bn 1) Create multiple compile_Ax_By.sh, containing: #!/bin/bash # Define my application MYAPP=A1 # Call ./compile.sh with predefined parameters ./compile.sh BOARD="orangepipcplus" BRANCH="current" RELEASE="focal" BUILD_DESKTOP="yes" KERNEL_ONLY="no" KERNEL_CONFIGURE="no" 2) In userpatches/customize-image.sh add a single line to my custom my-custom-image.sh (in case original got…

Why armbian put debian.list to ubuntu package list (/etc/apt/sources.list/debian.list)? I am on ubuntu so I don't understand why should I have mix of debian and ubuntu packages

I'm successfully able to compile Armbian with the 4.17 kernel, Ubuntu Bionic and desktop support for my Orange Pi Plus 2E (H3). But I'm trying to switch from the default nodm display manager to lightdm. I was actually able to install lightdm using lib.config the customize-image.sh script (see here), but then the wizard complains that I have to choose between nodm and lightdm. Then I discovered there's a DISPLAY_MANAGER env variable that I can pass into compile which seems like a better solution. Unfortunately that consistently breaks: Unpacking libpython-stdlib:armhf (2.7.15~rc1-1) ... Errors were encountered while processing: /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-GgFLat/090-huma…

We all know there are several shortcomings which causes mess in the config files and prevent simple implementing of more complex scripting. In order to make build system future proof and to cleanup the exception mess, which is virtually everywhere, I decided to start working on a part of the build system. Now the concept works and it is not that far to be mad if idea is bad packages/extras was moved into this, then board support package and (for now) Cubietruck and Tinkerboard hacks from config/sources/ All others have to be implement into packages and their scripts. It's one time job and it will be much easier in the future, with new boards or functions. …

Hello, I use the amlogic S905W (TX3mini) When I would like to start my PPP connection my Kernel says missing Module: Couldn't open the /dev/ppp device: No such file or directory modprobe: FATAL: Module ppp_generic not found in directory /lib/modules/5.5.1-arm-64 pppd: You need to create the /dev/ppp device node by executing the following command as root: mknod /dev/ppp c 108 0 Please check kernel 5.5.1-arm-64 Many Thanks

Hi - Are there plans to upgrade uboot from April (v2019.04) to October (v2019.10) for all boards as October final has been tagged ?

Hi, I tested to build some deb package yesterday on my Nanopi M1 and it went surprisingly good and quite fast so I wondered ... I know that the documented way of building armbian is with a x64 computer (with Virtualbox / docker). As I already stated I don't have a big enough x64 computer at hand, would it be feasible to tweak the scripts to build one image (not all) using either my Nanopi M1 (but I guess 512Mo of RAM will be problematic) or a Banana Pi / Raspberry Pi 2 ? If not, building uboot / kernel only ? I started to read the scripts, there are many scripts and but I think I can understand many of them individually even if the global architecture is h…

I hope you can understand my question just from the title but here's more information in case you need it. BACKGROUND ON MY END GOAL IN CASE YOU HAVE ADVICE: I'm attempting to create a hardened linux image for running on my nanoPC-t4. I gotta give you guys props because Armbian appears to be wayyyyy ahead of the alternative distributions I checked out (gentoo/arch/lubuntu) in terms of support/customizability/documentation for ARM development. As a first step, I'm trying to build & boot a hardened Linux kernel. After some googling, I settled on this repo as my best option for free & open-source hardened kernel sources (unless anyone has a better suggestion)…

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Release WIP and CSC images from their own page with very specific limitations, including, but not limited to: no kernel or u-boot updates, ideally with the kernel and u-boot package names modified with -unsupported- Explain these are demo snapshot images, potentially even package a different wallpaper that has -unofficial- or something similar watermarked across it. Maybe even use the default WM theme.

I followed the documentation and cloned the repo in the Host first, changed to config/templates and started the Vagrant virtual machine. If I am not mistaken, inside the Guest, the repo is cloned again for the actual development. This implies that cloning on the Host system has only the purpose to provide config/templates/Vagrantfile and config-vagrant.conf, is that right? All other cloned files on the HOST have no relevance (except for the directories userpatches and output, which are mounted)? I find that quite confusing and if I am right with my assumption, I would like to add a note to the documentation for future users. Or: Would it be possib…

Tried to have a new build today and got this [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ common.sh:200 ] [ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Process terminated I was trying to build with options OPi PCPlus, RT patch, jessie, desktop and got this stopping error message Is there any log with details that I can review in order to pinpoint the exact problem?

Hi guys setting variables like MAINLINE_KERNEL_SOURCE in userpatches/lib.config does not change anything in the build. Is this fine ? What is the correct place to update this variable ? Thanks

Hello, I am not very experienced on the Armbian development and want to add a kernel driver to the legacy kernel using the compile.sh development tool, but did not grasp the best practice to add the kernel source reading some forum posts and docs. As a start lets add the sunxi-can driver for the Olimex CAN-A20 interface for legacy kernel for Olimex lime2 A20 board like described in the Wiki at Olimex: https://www.olimex.com/wiki/A20-CAN I did: a) http://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparationon an virtual box on my machine and can successfully build kernel packages and apply user-patches enable some patches like the copy /patch…

I don't know when exactly but since 21.08.2018 I can't build dev kernel anymore I am building armbian (on ubuntu 18.04) like this sudo BETA=yes EXPERT=yes ./compile.sh but there isn't dev kernel options in menu anymore

Hello guys can you help me please understand your overlay compilation support which is working in "next" build? I transferred required patches and made a build with 4.15. Now I have my dtbos and scr in place, added "overlays=" in armbianEnv.txt but my overlays are not loaded in run-time. I noticed that you have the following condition around dtbos: ifeq ($(CONFIG_OF_CONFIGFS),y) ... endif and there is also a special patch to add configs module to build. My question: is configs module required for loading overlays ? I can't apply this patch into 4.15 as configfs.c is not compatible with new codebase. …

4.17.y is, even not LTS, but probably better than heavily patched 4.14.y in any way. Shall we do this switch now and start preparing 4.18.y on a DEV?

Hello everybody, I tried to install drivers for camera the board on karnel 4.* for orange pi lite2 , but it failed. -modprobe vfe_v4l2 -modprobe vfe_v4l2 -and device /dev/video0 no directory i folloved instruction and i installed header file for linux karnel , but this did't solov my problem. I readed a lot of topic on the forums, but this did't solove my problem. I'm willing to spend a small amount for to solov the problem. Please write you thoughts and offer.

Wondering if we should have a release notes/changelog that gets tossed into the image somewhere? Something very simple that we maintain by just updating a text file with a significant commit. (Like changing kernel versions, fixing a known bug from previous release, etc). Maybe toss it up onscreen at first boot. Moving the thermal zones on Tinker made me think that might be a good idea.

[ o.k. ] Building deb [ armbian-config ] [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ armbian-config master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Merging and packaging linux firmware [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ armbian-firmware-git master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Merging and packaging linux firmware [ @host ] [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ armbian-firmware-git master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ linux-firmware-git master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Creating board support package [ nanopineocore2 next ] [ .... ] Fingerprinting [ o.k. ] Building package [ linux-stretch-root-next-nanopineocore2 ] [ o.k. ] Building desktop package [ armbian-stretc…

Hello guys, There is an issue in build framework that makes impossible building my custom kernel for sun6i without changing your code. In the file sunxi_common.inc the variable LINUXFAMILY is forced to "sunxi" (unless it is sun8i) and my custom file userpatches/sources/sun6i.conf is not included. Of course I can hack sunxi_common.inc but much better if you make sort of correction for this issue. Thanks

I can configure the kernel (KERNEL_CONFIGURE="yes" in compile.sh), but can not configure U-Boot? How to configure U-Boot at ARMBIAN compilation?

Hello, I am new to armbian and it building environment. I had to start from ground and stumbled across some unclear / wrong point in the documentation. [EDIT: I already managed to build an running image. This Thread is about the documentation] So i just want to point them out, not to harm anybody, just to tell what happened to me. Perhaps all of it is just because i didn't followed the documentation correctly. If that's the case i like to apologize for disturbing. 1. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/#virtualbox-version suggestst to do: > vagrant plugin install vagrant-disksize …

Hi There I'm trying to compile a new image with armbians build environment. Basically the process works as expected, as long as i recompile everything. But i want to make some changes to the KERNEL source before compiling. Therefore i have enabled the following flags: CREATE_PATCHES="yes" KERNEL_ONLY="yes" # build kernel only SOURCE_COMPILE="yes" # force source compilation KERNEL_CLEAN="yes" # MAKE clean before compilation CLEAN_LEVEL="sources" But, it does not clean the Kernel and it does not recompile it. Do you have any…

This is to discuss and prioritize enhancements and bugfixes we want to target for v20.05 (Kagu). We will lock this thread 2020-03-15 to manage scope creep. Many items are currently in Jira here https://armbian.atlassian.net/projects/AR/issues/?filter=allopenissues If you're a frequent contributor and would like to join our Jira, please PM me. It's not mandatory, but it would make things easier. To track. Remember the Armbian Mission Statement: Armbian is a base operating system platform for single board computers that other projects can trust to build upon. Let's try to prioritize things that help us deliver on that mission

Is there a way, without having to fork the armbian/build repos, to modify the first run service? I would like to add some stuff. It would be awesome if there is a way to provide an extra script that is run after the end of the armbian-first-run service. Maybe an additional parameter in armbian_first_run.txt that can provide the path to a script that gets run? Or is there a way I am overlooking that can achieve this already?

Hi guys, Is it possible to include the hfsplus module (used for mounting Mac HFS+ filesystems) in the kernel please? I have to manually build kernels in order to get this feature which is time consuming.

Today I did compile for some SBCs the kernel 5.9.1 dev but had something strange - for me - When I did compile for sunxi I also did get a .deb for sunxi64 and a new sunxi when I did compile for a sunxi64 board. AND as last I did compile for the Odroid C2 (meson64) and I also did get the sunxi and sunxi64 .deb-packages. Is this normal or a new bug? Because in the past I did only get a new .deb-package for the platform which I did actually compile for.

Hello, I try to use DBus within the chroot and I got this issue : Failed to create bus connection The command used was : hostnamectl set-hostname device_name Systemd does not seems to work within the chroot, do you have any workaround ? Thanks, Florian

Hello all, I recently went through the exercise of getting the Armbian build system set up to create an image with some of my user customizations, similar to the example with OMV. The documentation and forums have been a huge help! As I am running Fedora and Windows as my main OSes, I did struggle a bit at first. I tried, in order: Ignoring the advice of the documentation, and running ./compile.sh on Fedora. Didn't get far Running the build with Docker on Fedora. I ran into a number of different problems and ultimately gave up. Running on Ubuntu 18.04 on WSL2. I did eventually get a build to complete, but the image may h…

I got this error building a Cubietruck image on sunxi-next with patches in both u-boot and the kernel: [ error ] ERROR in function compile_kernel [ common.sh:228 ] [ error ] Kernel was not built [ @host ] Full log: http://pastebin.com/MKTmUXcc

Hello guys, I built OS with legacy kernel for Orange Pi One using github framework https://github.com/armbian/build . Everything went fine and I got a resulting img file. I copied it to 16GB SD card (7Samsung EVO class 10) and powered up my device but it couldn't start. Below is the log I got from UART console. You can see from it that my device was retrying boot sequence over and over unsuccessfully. Can you help with the problem, please ? P.S. I also built Armbian with mainline kernel and it loaded fine, i.e. problem exists only with legacy kernel -------------------------------------------------------------------…

Hello, guys, I need to set overlay_prefix=sun6i-a31 in armbianEnv.txt automatically. I found that the default sunxi_common.inc behavior does not allow applying my custom file "userpatches/sources/sun6i.conf" where I have OVERLAY_PREFIX variable declared. In the file sunxi_common.inc the variable LINUXFAMILY is reset to "sunxi" for sun6i architecture. My question is: do you have another way to set OVERLAY_PREFIX variable ? Thank you.

I don't really know if this is related to Armbian, but I have a USB disk that is not recognised when plugged into USB 3 (blue port) but it works in USB2.0 port. I have also tried SanDisk Ultra USB3.0 and it works. Shouldn't the USB3.1 also support USB3.0 if it supports USB2.0 ?

Hi folks, I started to think about that a while ago and want to share my thoughts with you. In my opinion RPi-Monitor is a great tool to get a clue what's going on on a SBC (especially when testing stuff but also in 24/7 use). It's also lightweight enough to run all the time in the background collecting data and to be used by a few clients also (rendering/display happens in the user's browser and not on the SBC). Currently users have to install RPi-Monitor manually and sometimes seem to be confused (for example they switch between legacy and vanilla/mainline kernel and temperature/consumption graphs disappear). If we would integrate RPi-Monitor into Armbia…

Hello, I found a typo: start armbian-config go to Welcome show numbers avaliable updates --> available cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=bananapi BOARD_NAME="Banana Pi" VERSION=5.31 LINUXFAMILY=sunxi BRANCH=next ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable

Hi Board, I have submitted a PR a few minutes ago to Build repo (https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/927) removing some drivers that WILL NOT load in RK3288, because they are specific to other SoCs / Architectures. I also took the opportunity to convert a batch of drivers / machines to modules, in order to alleviate the kernel size and squeeze some performance (because some of the loaded stuffs does effectively consumes CPU). Well, that's what modules are meant for, right? The patch was crafted to DEV version. Need more extensive Tinkerboard tests (did not test the GUI) and MiQi (not tested at all, I lack the hardware). Ha…

I have several files I want to embed into the compiled image, such as logos, desktop backgrounds, some public keys, scripts etc. I can put them in correct place (e.g. /usr/local/bin) or put it in a directory at root (e.g. /MyAppSetup) and run a script to handle/move them. In the past I was using a private git repo on my server to clone these, but if I'm compiling, I'd like to get rid of this extra layer. I could not find a way to do that. Could someone please advise?

Hello everyone, since i couldn't find a section for the NanoPi Neo/M1 (or maybe i just overlooked it), and the OrangePi One is rather close to it anyways, i'll post it here. Would there be interrest in a 3.4.112 kernel tree with the preempt_rt patches (rt143) added? I got myself said NanoPi's some days ago, and started to patch my way up from the original sunxi kernel 3.4.39 to the 3.4.112 version, then added the preempt_rt patches, and finally added (most?) patches from the Armbian build. Obviously manually adding the rejects. I'm also having a U-Boot 2016.09-rc1 that i have slightly patched to have it use uEnv.txt instead of boot.scr, because i got too annoyed t…

Hi all, here's a newbie question: -How to change root-file-system? Eg. for ex. change settings in a file /etc/network/interfaces, when building the whole image. I tried to use the build/userpatches/overlay folder and add changed files there, but didn't work... I'm probably missing something. br. Mike

I want to override some configurations from $LINUXFAMILY.conf in SOMEBOARD.conf/wip/csc. One way is to provide $SRC/userpatches/sources/$LINUXFAMILY.conf, but I don't like this approach. I want to make these modification permanent. Maybe move the specific configuration from the family file to each board file, but with will not work with big families. Any ideas or comments? Thanks

Playing with BUILD_MINIMAL I had to several times run compilation script for the same board / system / branch. To speed up verification I thought: what is a point to constantly build u-boot / kernel? So I added CLEAN_LEVEL option to not delete generated debs. I have noted that from one hand I can disable cleaning of (for example) kernel deb files, but from other hand if there is repository update no new deb is produced. And the idea.... or is this already implemented somewhere? Build of u-boot / kernel is initiated when no deb file exists. fetch_from_repo function knows if the repository is updated. What is fetch_f…

I am building from source using the vagrant process, as outlined here: https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/ When running ./compile.sh, I get the option to customize the kernel via dialog and I did select some customizations. When saving the config, I choose the default `.config` as output. However, when running `./compile.sh` a second time, all the settings are back at default and I can not find any `.config` file anywhere in the tree. Spoiler vagrant@ubuntu-bionic:~/armbian$ tree output output ├── config │ └── linux-rockchip64-current.config ├── debs │ ├── armbian-config_19.11.9_all.deb │ ├── armbian-…

Hello there, I am trying to build a custom armbian image using instructions here http://www.armbian.com/using-armbian-tools/, because I need to enable additional module for Philips webcam, not included in stock one. I have built the compile environment, run the script, added my modules and compiled, generating the entire image. Once I flash and boot from it though, Uboot hangs while saying "booting the kernel" I have tried release 5.00 and 5.06, using Debian Wheezy and Jessie, with the same result. I have also tried flashing the stock image and then just replace kernel packages I had built, because I thought the problem could have to do with systemd. As l…

Idly wondering if the .debs directory could be owned by the user rather than root ...

Hello guys. I try to build image for pine64. My OS is Ubuntu 16.04. My options: - Full OS image for flashing - Do not change the kernel configuration - pine64 - default - jessie -image with console interface. Then I see the following: 0 upgraded, 299 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 118 MB of archives. After this operation, 461 MB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! hostapd E: There are problems and -y was used without --force-yes [ error ] ERROR in function create_rootfs_cache [ debootstrap-ng.sh:208…

I came across this blog post which had a fantastic breakdown of the workflow for building a kernel with the armbian build tools. Just wanted to share.

I've been studying and working on Dynamic Device-Tree Overlays since awhile, but after hard work, I've finally got a working prototype using the work from Pantelis Antoniou. During last few days, I was doing debugging to find out why it wasn't working, even if I got the ConfigFS working, it was refusing to grab my simple overlay test. I've finally figured out this afternoon : the Root/Base DTB need also to be compiled with the "symbols" list generated with the Antoniou's version of "dtc". So, I will probably prepare a patch soon and submit it thru a PR.

Hi all Is it possible (and if so how) to use the toolchain and the first kernel compilation output from armbian to recompile a single kernel module? Bye

Dear All, I am following below link for my orangepi3 armbian os and able to successfully prepare image file. Now if i try to again generate image then whole the process go again and it took much time and everytime download packages. Below are my requirement so please help me for. build only uboot but don't want to fetch and extract sources again. build only kernel but don't want to fetch and extract sources again. build only rootfs but don't want to fetch and extract sources again. build whole image without internet access in my system it will be good if anyone can help me for this so i can speed up my development. https://docs.armbian.c…

Dear maintainers, can you answer a simple question: which board should be selected in build menu for BananaPi M1+ ? I can see 2 options for A20 Soc : "bananapi" and "bananapipro" ? Which one is the preferred option ? Thanks

Using ./compile.sh, I'm not able to build ATF for the H5. It appears that the problem is that it's looking for the "allwinner-stable" branch, when the branch name on the repositiory is just "allwinner" or "allwinner-testing". Error is at the bottom of the post. I got it to work by changing the branch name in ./build/config/sources/sunxi64_common.inc by setting ATFBRANCH='branch:allwinner-stable' and it appears to work. Is this a naming problem in the fork of ATF, or a naming problem in armbian/build? Error output from ./compile.sh. Targeting nanopineoplus2, occurs on next/dev with jessie/stretch/ubuntu. [ o.k. ] Downloading sources [ …

AXP202/209 sysfs interface patch for axp20x MFD drvier in mainline kernel I'll try to maintain this patch as long as axp20x power driver is not present in mainline kernel. Adding partial sysfs interface to MFD driver is not a proper way to implement things in mainline kernel; if you want, you can use this code and RFC power driver patch to write a proper driver and send it upstream. âžœ ~ % ls /sys/power/axp_pmu/{ac,vbus,battery,charger,pmu,control,ocv_curve} /sys/power/axp_pmu/ocv_curve /sys/power/axp_pmu/ac: amperage connected used voltage /sys/power/axp_pmu/battery: amperage capacity charge charging connected power ts_voltage voltage …

As many of you know, lots of git repositories are automatically built every time there's a pull request, letting the project community know if that commit will introduce a flaw of some kind. If it's a help to Armbian, I'd like to configure a cloud-based build system that should be able to cut the "build all" time down to about 10% of what it is, and possibly to a number lower than that. Here's what I'd do. I'll use Google cloud's preemptible servers to spawn say 30 machines with the trigger being a pull request. If any of these macines dies during the build, it'll come back red. and otherwise, it will come back green and upload all of the binaries to google clou…

Hey, I'd like to build an image closer to mainline Debian (normal MOTD, wicd instead of network manager) with a few extra packages (nginx, mariadb, ...) and openbox for the DE targeted at an OrangePi Plus 2E, any suggestions or guidance on how to edit the build scripts to create something like this? Currently doing this all with Ansible after copying it to eMMC, but I figure it'd be a big time savings to prebuild an image with the right DE and software on a more powerful box.

Just a quick list: It's named completely wrong since it doesn't install anything but transfers an already running installation from one media to another. Main focus on 'without breaking stuff' since transfering a booted/running system is challenging! It's named completely wrong since it's not about NAND and SATA any more (hello Cubieboards and Bananas back in 2014) but eMMC and USB these days (and yeah, SATA too) It's a blind alley: moving the installation from SD card to $somewhere will work. But nand-sata-install is still there, people might want to use it and will fail (though I think that will most probably never happen since once people are h…

Hi, I noticed that "install.log" was missing the beginning of the process, it starts at building the .deb for u-boot. There is one ">" missing in common.sh: diff --git a/common.sh b/common.sh index 503a3ab..920ba38 100644 --- a/common.sh +++ b/common.sh @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ compile_uboot (){ cd $DEST/debs display_alert "Target directory" "$DEST/debs/" "info" display_alert "Building deb" "$uboot_name.deb" "info" - dpkg -b $uboot_name > $DEST/debug/install.log 2>&1 + dpkg -b $uboot_name >> $DEST/debug/install.log 2>&1 rm -rf $uboot_name FILESIZE=$(wc -c $DEST/debs/$uboot_name.deb | cut -f 1 …

For now - armbian is best OS for Orange Pi Plus 2. I try connect touchscreen Waveshare 5" LCD Ver.2 trough GPIO but no success:( If it possible, please, add driver for ADS7843 Touchscreen in next patch. Sorry, cant do it himself:(

Hi, attached is a patch for U-Boot (should work on 2016.09-rc1 and 2016-09-rc2-dirty, will probably work on older ones as well) that makes it use the plain text file uEnv.txt instead of boot.scr, which has to be translated to a binary file first. This way changing the environment means only editing a text file, instead of editing a file, converting it to binary, and copying it over to the /boot partition on the SD. This becomes active if the U-Boot config has the option OLD_SUNXI_COMPAT disabled (in the menuconfig this is under ARM architecture -> Enable workarounds for booting old kernels). It also adds a small patch to board/sunxi/board.c to skip the setting …

See conversation in this commit for background The current default, Next, Dev naming convention for the kernel source trees is confusing, and a bit inconsistent. I think it's time to rename them and provide clear definitions of what they are supposed to provide. I'll start with some ideas here: Vendor This Kernel is currently called Default . The Vendor kernel would be the BSP-derived kernel or vendor maintained kernel. Typically there for basic functionality early in a boards life. Armbian can supply patches for these kernels LTS This kernel is currently called Next. The LTS kernel would follow a LTS version of …

Hi, I thought about the situation with the yet announced Orange Pi One (H3 based, $10, Fast Ethernet) that should start shipping on Jan 25th. The PCB is smaller, it features less USB ports than the Orange Pi PC and has a different voltage regulator switching between 1.1V and 1.3V (adjusted through GPIO): http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=895&page=4#lastpost Igor already prepared a test image for Orange Pi Plus based on kernel 4.4.0-rc5 last year (which I used to setup a NAS with an Orange Pi PC in the meantime ) and I would believe mainline kernel support for these H3 devices will improve pretty fast in 2016. It seems …

Edit: Uh i guess it should be in the "Development" section instead ... but I can't find how to move the topic :s Hellow, thank you very much for all the work achieved by the Armbian project. I am using Armbian to build images (using https://github.com/armbian/build ) that I provide to users, with custom packagers installed via userpatches and it works pretty well ! However, the whole "kernel compiling" thing is quite mysterious to me and I don't really understand it. My questions are : - I am confused by the whole "default", "next" and "dev" terminology ? I am guessing this is some sort of stable / testing / unstable, b…

Dear All, I am trying to prepare the rootfs for opi3 board with CRYPTROOT_ENABLE option to yes using below command but getting error as below. ./compile.sh BOARD=orangepi3 BRANCH=current RELEASE=buster BUILD_MINIMAL=yes BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,gpg,img CLEAN_LEVEL=images OFFLINE_WORK=yes CRYPTROOT_ENABLE=yes CRYPTROOT_PASSPHRASE="MYSECRECTPASS" CRYPTROOT_SSH_UNLOCK=yes CRYPTROOT_SSH_UNLOCK_PORT=2222 CRYPTROOT_PARAMETERS="custom cryptsetup options" invoke-rc.d: policy-rc.d denied execution of start. Processing triggers for systemd (241-7~deb10u4) ... [ o.k. ] Calling image customization script [ c…

As per documentation, I'm providing a custom kernel config, and I do get the message during my build: [ o.k. ] Using kernel config provided by user [ userpatches/linux-sunxi64-current.config ] which is great! The problem I face is that although the message is shown, the config that takes place seems to be something different, as can be checked when booting the image and looking up the config file in /boot/config-5.9.8-sunxi64 Digging a little bit in compilation.sh, I can see that cp .config "${DEST}/config/${LINUXCONFIG}.config" will only be run if KERNEL_CONFIGURE=yes As I want a fully automated image…

Hi, I bought this relatively new WiFi card from sinovoip based on the MT7615. http://forum.banana-pi.org/t/bpi-mt7615-802-11-ac-wifi-4x4-dual-band-pcie-module-mass-production-version/10037 The kernel drivers for this are already in mainline linux (starting from 5.3 I think). I'm trying to use it on the clearfogpro though, which only runs up to kernel 4.19 right now (tried compiling 5.3 but it fails). So I wanted to backport the driver to 4.19. Unfortunately multiple things changed and trying to get the driver to compile broke lots of other stuff. So I came around to backports https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page their documentat…

Hi there, Trying to build full OS image (or only kernel) to Rock64 in order to add support to AR9271 Atheros chipset. I only managed once to make the board recognize the wlan adapter only after reconnecting it (doesn't survive reboot). any help will be much appreciated.

Dear contributors, the Armbian build framework sub-forum is dedicated to collaborate on the tool founded by Igor. The framework itself is opensource/GPL. Please add in the title, if possible: [WiP] = Work in Progress [RFC] = Request for Comment [TEST], [TEST/CPU/Board] = Feed back on tests [Device specific] [Board specific] etc. The framework doc is here [WIP] The tool aims at building {legacy, vanilla} linux kernels as well as (user-)patching/creating complete working images with {trusty,wheezy,jessie} to write on your flash {sdcard/NAND} Long story short... feel free to: Report bugs related to build script itself or patches supplied with it; Suggest new f…

Hello, guys, any plans to support SUBJ ? I need a very simple image, display + network. Thank you

Hi all, When i trie to install ISPconfig with softy all goes very well. And when the installation is finished i should be login on https://orangepi-PC:8080/login/index.php . But every what i trie (i read it should be admin/admin at the first start) nothing worked to login. Does anyone know what is the default password or what is the problem van not loging in? Kind regards!

It might be time for some release line. Let's put together what was done in past few month, need to be done, was forgotten and it's worth mentioning. I sure missed stuff out ... so just add it. IMAGES / KERNEL: - all 3.10+ kernels are Docker ready - added Odroid C2 CLI and desktop, kernel upgraded to 3.14.65 - Udoo Neo wireless works - legacy kernel for Allwinner boards was upgraded to 3.4.111 - legacy kernel for iMx6 boards was upgraded to 3.14.65 - vanilla images comes with kernel 4.4.6 - Clearfog comes with 3.10.101 and 4.4.6 - added Armbianmonitor which knows .... - fixes for SPDIF / I2S audio driver in legacy kernel - added USB camera section - added f…

I tried to compile a new kernel. It compiles finaly, but I miss the file: linux-dtb-dev-sun8i_********** Instead I see a file: linux-libc-dev_5.27_armhf.deb Anyone has an idea hat goes wrong and how I produce this file? See compilation logs: https://pastebin.com/98en8B4n dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-firmware-image-4.12.0-next-20170529-sun8i' in '../linux-firmware-image-4.12.0-next-20170529-sun8i_5.27_armhf.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-headers-4.12.0-next-20170529-sun8i' in '../linux-headers-4.12.0-next-20170529-sun8i_5.27_armhf.deb'. dpkg-deb: building package 'linux-libc-dev' in '../lin…

Hi hi @Igor I have written in my tree a markdown file in build rootdir (wondering about a /doc directory?) guiding how to build a kernel using RHEL / CentOS containers. URL: https://github.com/rfrht/build/blob/testdoc1/build-docker-rhel.md Wondering if would you be interested to merge it into your tree. Let me know! - RF.

Hi, I'm not exactly sure where this type of thread goes. If it doesn't go here, can someone please politely move it? Thank you very much! There seems to be a rogue file in the "/etc/sysfs.d/" directory with the file "20-gpu-governor.conf" on my system. This file is meant to tune the GPU governor to "performance", instead of the default "simple_ondemand". But I'm confused as to which package supplies this. It is not supplied by sysfsutils, so maybe it's Armbian specific? Not sure. This file is on Armbian for the Helios64. Here are the contents of the file "/etc/sysfs.d/20-gpu-governor.conf": # Set "performance" GPU…

Officially, how do I convince my build environment that I still want to use 4.14? When I just ./compile.sh BOARD=nanopiair BRANCH=next it defaults to 4.17 What I have come up with is: git checkout sunxi-4.14 && touch .ignore_changes This results in a lot of patches failing What is the correct way please?

I'm new to building the toolchain so sorry if I missed something basic. I installed Virtualbox greater than the version noted on the instructions page. (https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Preparation/) Used the mini image at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/installer-amd64/current/legacy-images/netboot/mini.iso per above page. During the install I did not check any options for system software. Started the os and installed git using sudo per the instructions page in the second line above. After it completed I changed to the build directory and issued the compile sudo ./compile.sh and seems to run as expected. I…

it is WIP odroid xu3 & xu4 have 4 Cortex-A7 cores max=1400MHz 4 Cortex-A15 cores max=2000MHz in HMP mode (patched kernel 3.10), 4 cores can run @1.4GHz and 4 cores @2GHz Cf. Heterogeneous Multi-Processing (HMP) solution The ODROID-XU4, equipped with four big cores (ARM® Cortex® -A15™ up to 2.0GHz) and four small cores (ARM® Cortex® -A7™ up to 1.4 GHz), provides improved processing capabilities while maintaining the most efficient power consumption available. With the big.LITTLE™ HMP solution, the Exynos-5422 can utilize a maximum of all eight cores to manage computationally intensive tasks.

Hello guys, I need my device to load armbian , autologin and run my application fullscreen. Can you give me a hint, please, what I should add into customization scripts ? Thanks

Hey Guys, following this very closely for a couple of days now, and I want to starting putting my two cents in the bucket. I work with the (Olimex) A13-SOM and got some working images. All quiet hacky so I would love to add the configuration to the installer script to get some clean build images. Where to start? What info do I need? I want to do both legacy kernel(I use LCD output) and vanilla kernel. Booli

Hello guys can you teach please how to update Armbian's kernel on my device without replacing whole SD image ? thank you

I saw @zador.blood.stained was doing some housekeeping, so I wanted to open the discussion again about what to do about it in the future. We've obviously demonstrated what you "don't want to do". My last comments on this were as follows: We should have temporary per-kernel branches when undertaking a bigger change. This allows wider testing for those who like to build experimental things Makes the creator of the branch responsible for keeping it up to date gets flattened out and merged into "master" or a "next" waiting for a revision bump PR's should be used on anything anyone is not 100% certain of to g…

Yes, sure. Go ahead ... BTW: can you try to compile U-boot for Armada ... it's failing for me on two different machines and it's suppose to work.

Hi, I recently set up an ubuntu 16.04 parallels machine for armbian building. I use ./compile.sh BRANCH=dev to build orange pi lite2 dev images. But it failed, here is the log: [ o.k. ] Downloading sources [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ u-boot h6-hdmi-rebased-1 ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ linux-mainline h6-integrate-2-ugly ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ arm-trusted-firmware-sunxi-mainline sun50i_h6_pmic ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ sunxi-tools master ] [ .... ] Up to date [ o.k. ] Checking git sources [ rkbin-t…

Is there any simple way that we automatically produce a patch of changes made to the (kernel / uboot) source? Of course also if files are added.

Hey guys. 1. This piece if [[ $(lsb_release -sc) =~ bionic|buster|cosmic|disco ]]; then mkopts[ext4]='-q -m 2 -O ^64bit,^metadata_csum' elif [[ $(lsb_release -sc) == xenial ]]; then mkopts[ext4]='-q -m 2' fi Why disable metadata_csum? Why disable 64bit overall, not just for pure 32 bit boards? Edit on Mar 9 2020 Metadata checksums is a new feature of ext4 since e2fsprogs 1.44 (xenial has 1.42). It makes the fs more robust to data corruption but it requires some extra cpu power to calculate the checksums. It is not a problem for generic cpus with SSE4.2 (= hardware accelerated crc32): intel since …

For the past 10 years, I have been moving evenly and rectilinearly in an inertial frame of reference called OpenSUSE. I had to first read about creating Debian packages and look here: https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/focal/tree/ Both Ubuntu and OpenSUSE distributions start with the kernel source package, which contains a set of scripts and rules for further build. This has a sacred meaning. To get started, I took two scripts from the v5.7-rcX core as a basis and put them in packages/armbian/builddeb packages/armbian/mkdebian checked the build process for bionic current core v5.4.y This initial state can ser…

After successfully building an image, I decided to build one for another board. Got a warning something like [warn] low disk space [5GB] I deleted the output directory and still states only 6 GB. I had given virtualbox 30 gb for this drive. What is the proper way to clean out the drive after a compile? Just ignore it, does it over write? Sorry if I missed this in the docs somewhere but I didn't find anything about it.

I've noticed that in order to be able to build offline, I need not only to specify OFFLINE_WORK=yes as per this documentation: OFFLINE_WORK ( yes | no ): skip downloading and updating sources as well as time and host check. Set to “yes” and you can collect packages without accessing the internet but also IGNORE_UPDATES=yes. Probably because of this is main.sh: # ignore updates help on building all images - for internal purposes if [[ $IGNORE_UPDATES != yes ]]; then display_alert "Downloading sources" "" "info" I don't see here in main.sh where is is checking for build-all..... so it seems that unless i specif…

I fail build rom when pack [libssl-dev] , my OS is ubuntu 15, anyone can help me ?

hi, i have a problem not being able to build for Odroid-N2. To isolate the issue i created new copy of git ... it fails on kernel build. all defaults. zh@acus:~/git$ git clone https://github.com/armbian/build.git armbian Cloning into 'armbian'... remote: Enumerating objects: 151, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (151/151), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (121/121), done. remote: Total 49101 (delta 83), reused 65 (delta 30), pack-reused 48950 Receiving objects: 100% (49101/49101), 325.95 MiB | 8.33 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (32873/32873), done. Checking out files: 100% (2951/2951), done. zh@acus:~/git$ cd armbian zh@acus:~/git/armbian$ ./comp…

A little bit OT, but what is the recommended way to sort a dts file? I commonly see patches, where maintainers keep requesting for nodes in a dts file to be sorted alphabetically, but didn't find any way to achieve this? I tired a simple `dtc -I dts -O dts -s xxx.dts` but the output contains symbols that I don't really need.

Can you please enable MAC80211_MESH in the kernel. Board: Rock64 https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/937 im guessing here https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/master/config/kernel/linux-rk3328-default.config#L1182

hi, i have latest Armbian environment pulled from github running on Ubuntu Bionic 18.04. There are 2 issues that are bugging me. Not sure It does produce in most cases images but i think they are incomplete. Tried even secondary copy (another clone) that i would run in docker containers just to see if that was the issue but outcome seems to be the same. 1. Every time i start ./compile it pulls Linaro toolchain and fails to verify its signature. Looking at the files https://dl.armbian.com/_toolchains/ it seems that linaro toolchain has GPG signature in ASC file where as others have checksum. Am not sure ... zh@acus:~/armbian$ ./comp…

Bugfix v1 was already pushed out: [AR-551] - Update fan configuration, enable network LED and enable UPS timer Updated Helios64, Rockpi 4* images and rockchip64 kernels Bugfix v2 Let's try to patch other critical things before Christmas. I already addressed ZFS problem on Focal by adding most recent DKMS package, but to solve it also for Buster it requires all kernel recompilation - in case you want to push some late changes, now it's the time. The Beast can handle that in no time We hopefully fixed Odroid HC4 (don't have HW to test), added KVIM2, DVFS on mvebu will be disabled from now on to secure stability (moving to 5.9.y ?)…

I want to build kernel applied with rt-patch. Latest rt-patch version is for 4.9.13. So, How can I get the result? I think I should edit configuration.sh and then, put the patch file to userpatches/kernel directory? I need a kernel for nanopi-neo.